College Football Playoff rankings 2022: Projected Week 11 Top 25 after LSU upsets Alabama, Georgia routs Tennessee, Clemson upset

Projected College Football Playoff rankings after Week 10: No. 10-9

10. Ole Miss Rebels

If there was ever a week to be a Top 25 team not playing, it was probably this one, so consider Lane Kiffin our Nostradamus for foreseeing that and giving the Ole Miss Rebels the week off (I am well aware this is not how scheduling works, it’s for the jokes). Now the Rebs get to move up one spot in the rankings without moving a finger — at least in competitive game action.

Though they are behind the 8-ball with their one loss on the year coming against LSU in terms of the SEC West race, Ole Miss still has a chance to make its way seriously into the Playoff race thanks to its remaining schedule. The Rebels will be back in action next week as they welcome Alabama to Oxford before then facing Arkansas and then going into the Egg Bowl. But with some warning signs recently showing, this team needs to take it up a notch to survive that stretch.

9. Clemson Tigers

Despite the fact that there have been cries that Clemson is fraudulent throughout basically this entire season leading up to Week 10, the College Football Playoff selection committee had Dabo Swinney’s team inside the Top 4 of the first rankings of the season. But now that the Tigers got their doors blown off in South Bend by Notre Dame (a team that has somehow lost to Marshall and Stanford this season), it turns out that was always the baked-in name brand of Clemson that led to that ranking.

Swinney tried both D.J. Uiagaleleit and 5-star phenom freshman Cade Klubnik to try and find offensive answers against the Fighting Irish and they just didn’t have any. What’s more concerning is that the star-laden defense let Notre Dame put up 35 points with an offense that has been anemic for much of the year. That’s a problem, but not one the CFP will need to address after Saturday because it’s hard to think Clemson has a real path now.